Belite Aircraft of Wichita, Kansas, announced the development of a 6 gram digital chip and probe combination sensor designed to detect liquid water in an aircraft fuel system. Jim Wiebe, president and CEO of Belite Aircraft, introduced the product at Sun n Fun 2011. The circuit chip, with a tiny probe attached, is poised to [...]

Gene and Larry Smith, the owners of Culver Props and Valley Engineering will have the production model of their new Back Yard Flyer “swing-wing” legal ultralight at Oshkosh. With its award-winning four-stroke Big Twin engine out front and its ability to rotate the wing 90° on its vertical axis, this plane can open the door [...]

One of the great aspects of events like Sun ‘n Fun is the frequency with which something new shows up. It’s unusual for those new things to be really different, but this ZJ Viera is an example of something far from the norm. Light, low to the ground and, from watching it, nimble both on [...]

It’s probably just human nature that ogling what’s new occupies so much of the attention of so many people so much of the time at events like the Sun ‘n Fun Fly-In. After all, it is arguably one of the most important shows on the annual aviation calendar. But periodically it’s something old that stops [...]

While this M-Squared ultralight may not look like a Mazda RX-8 sports car, its powerplant does share the same rotary-engine technology, with a single-rotor mill that made five big guys strain to hold it back during a runup test in Paradise City. So power, apparently, isn’t lacking. Better still, M-Squared boss Paul Mather (second from [...]